“If we don't do it, who will?” Strategies of social reproduction at the margins
研究黎巴嫩移民家政工人在经济危机和疫情下，如何利用个人资源建立互助网络，既填补非政府组织服务缺口，又挑战其社会再生产需求被忽视的阶级定位。
Abstract Migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Lebanon suffer grave human rights abuses as highly exploited social reproduction laborers under the kafala , or visa sponsorship system. Amidst the current economic and political crises in Lebanon, compounded by the spread of COVID‐19, MDW find themselves in an even more precarious situation. As funding from international and local nongovernment organizations is unable to keep up with the increasing demands for support, MDW community leaders and activists have shifted their labor in order to support some of the most marginalized members of this community of workers. To do this, these workers strategically use their often‐minimal personal sources of social reproduction resources to create this network of support. In so doing, the grassroots work of these MDW become yet another “fix” to capital's continuing crises and equally challenge their construction as a class of workers whose social reproduction needs can be disregarded.